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    Loran A
    From: Bill B
    Date: 2014 Aug 13, 14:46 -0700

    Doing a bit of research on LORAN A, I stumbled onto the following site:

    http://www.jproc.ca/hyperbolic/loran_a.html

    Very interesting, but some of the names struck my peculiar sense of humor.

    In 1937 R. J. Dippy worked for Watson-Watt's, who developed radar in 1935.  Dippy invented a system that sent out pulses to assist an aircraft in finding the runway-approach sweet spot. This was the Gee system. (The "Gee Spot"?)

    http://www.jproc.ca/hyperbolic/gee.html

    In mid-1942 Dippy "was sent to the USA for eight months to assist in Loran development." Which was the beginning of LORAN as we know it.

     

       
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